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Headword:
Kerkos
Adler number: kappa,1403
Translated headword: tail
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [ke/rkos means the same as] ou)ra/.[1]
"And [he] was transporting the cavalry across, with each of the cavalryman, on foot, fastened to the tail [sc. of his horse]."[2]
Greek Original:Kerkos: hê oura. diebibaze de tous hippeis, hekastou tôn hippeôn ek tês kerkou pezou prosêrtêmenou.
Notes:
[1] As in
kappa 1402, the Attic word for tail is glossed with
ou)ra/, which survived into the Modern vernacular.
[2] Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 5 November 2008@08:01:21.
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